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Duke Energy Graduate Assistantship
Duke Energy Graduate Assistantship Recipient '06/07
Duke Energy Graduate Assistantship
for Supply Chain Management Studies
Application deadline: March 1, 2007
Description | Application | SCM Concentration | 2006/07 Recipient
In 2006, Duke Energy, the SCRC and the MBA Office created a new kind of graduate assistantship for supply chain students. Under SCRC supervision, each student will be assigned to an executive mentor from the Duke Energy’s supply chain leadership team who will coach and provide guidance through the fellowship tenure. They will have the opportunity to work directly with Duke Energy professionals to identify key issue areas in SCM business functions, develop position papers and make recommendations based on research.
Each Duke fellow will receive the benefits associated with a graduate assistantship in the MBA Program. The fellowship will cover health insurance and tuition costs for the student. It requires 20 hours work per week with additional compensation of $6,000 for two semesters.
Sheri Straw, General Manager of Supply Chain Operations. explains, “We thought the fellowship would be more rewarding for the students. We wanted it to be a way of attracting top talent to the program. We see the NC State students coming out with a very balanced education because they have the experience side from the business projects plus the good academic background and we want to support that.”
The first fellowship recipient is Joe Reuss, MBA 07. “Sheri has been my executive sponsor. She has made sure that my role is understood by the entire Supply Chain team and has helped prioritize my potential projects. My next project is actually aimed at developing a ‘CPO Packet,’ a report that would improve measures and results of what the organization is doing and help communicate them outside of the Supply Chain organization. I’m working on external research to make that packet better.”
According to Sheri, “Through this fellowship we think we’re making the (NC State) program stronger. That’s why we’re investing in it. We know this is a great place for us to tap talent. We are helping to build a very strong local presence for supply chain excellence that we know we will tap in the future. We got Joe involved in a real world issue that we were trying to solve. His research was directly relevant to helping us make a business decision. He came in with a point of view that really advanced what we were trying to do.”
A version of the research reports produced through the fellowship will be posted on the SCRC web sites and used to promote the fellowship to future students.